slider rate and plotting - slider experience about interactbase.jl HOT 1 CLOSED

It may also depend on the plotting backend. For example:

import GR
using InteractBase
t = linspace(0,1,100)
x = linspace(-10,10,100)
@manipulate for j in eachindex(t)
    GR.plot(x, sin.(t[j]*x))
end

updates instantaneously on my machine (but the machine has good specs and GR is a very efficient backend). I haven't been able to set up PyPlot here, so I can't really test it.

If the computation is too intense (for example let's say I have 10000 points in my plot), one trick is to throttle, which means only update at a fixed time interval. Not sure what would be a good timestep, but you could try:

@manipulate throttle = 0.05 for j in eachindex(t) # update at most once every 0.05 secs
    withfig(f1,clear=true) do
        plot(x,sin.(t[j]*x))
    end
end

from interactbase.jl.